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Alarmed at expanding waistlines around the world, the UN’s health agency has urged countries to get serious about reining in a ballooning obesity crisis, proposing an action plan that includes taxing unhealthy snacks and rules against...

The patient, a 61-year-old from Flemington, lay motionless on the operating table at Somerset Medical Center. He was surrounded by a team of nurses who helped remove his cancerous prostate. His surgeon, a urologic oncologist named Dhiren Dave,...

An international trio blasted off Wednesday on top of a Russian Soyuz rocket for the International Space Station with a busy schedule full of space walks and a docking with a pioneering US cargo craft. The six-month mission of Russian commander...

Scientists in Alberta said this week they’ve revived a plant that was trapped under glacier ice for some 400 years or more, discovered during an exploration of Canada’s Teardrop Glacier in 2007. The organism is an ancient moss in the...

PARIS — Laboratory tests have revealed resistance in some H7N9 bird flu patients to the only available treatment, said virologists who unveiled “concerning” study results on Tuesday. Three out of 14 patients monitored at a clinic in...

Three scientists whose groundbreaking studies using fruit flies helped to uncover the workings of the human biological clock were Tuesday named the winners of the $1 million Shaw Prize. US scientists Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael...

By Liz Ford, The Guardian World Bank says maternal mortality lower in countries where girls complete primary school and women become MPs, but bemoans lack of data on reproductive health Lack of reliable data is hampering progress on improving...

Though Elon Musk’s all-electric car venture has been derided by conservatives, the tech entrepreneur’s vision of a private space industry has the backing of at least one prominent Republican. Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Friday signed...

England’s highly controversial badger culls risk illegally wiping out every badger in the cull zones because the animals’ numbers are so poorly known, according to one of the UK’s leading badger experts. The culls, intended to...

South Korea’s obsession with plastic surgery is moving on from standard eye and nose jobs to embrace a radical surgical procedure that requires months of often painful recovery. A stream of celebrities boast on TV shows how it gave them a...

Minerals found in craters on the Moon may be remnants of asteroids that slammed into it and not, as long believed, the satellite’s innards exposed by such impacts, a study said Sunday. The findings, published in the journal Nature...

Four separate teams of scientists have said they were unable to replicate a highly publicized study that last year touted a cancer drug’s success against Alzheimer’s disease in mice. “We wanted to repeat the study to see if we...

Decision to approve patent for embryo cell data could make IVF fertility treatments prohibitively expensive, says expert A fresh international row has erupted over granting US patents to processes which many scientists believe are basic aspects...

Why did our ancestors start walking upright? Ancient terrain may hold clue. (via The Christian Science Monitor) Copyright ImageClick to View A reconstruction of the skeleton of Australopithecus sediba, center, stands next to a modern human...

The majority of people on Earth will face severe water shortages within a generation or two if pollution and waste continues unabated, scientists warned at a conference in Bonn Friday. “This handicap will be self-inflicted and is, we...